A Director of Entrepreneurship & Scaling to join our Executive Team
We are inviting applications for our next Director of Entrepreneurship & Scaling. This is a rare senior opportunity available, where you play a key leadership role within Catalyst.
As part of the executive team, working with our partners and the wider innovation community, you will play a critical role in the design and implementation of entrepreneurial and scaling activity that will create meaningful impact and change for NI. You will lead the creation of new and the development of existing programmes and initiatives helping entrepreneurs and partners gain a competitive advantage, drive innovation, and create new technology advances that could change the world.
Key Information
Key Information
• Contract – full time, permanent
• Internationally attractive salary and generous total remuneration package
• Based at the Innovation Centre, Queen’s Road, Belfast (hybrid working arrangement available)
• Reporting to CEO
Employee Perks
• Competitive Benefits Package
• Generous pension contribution
• Generous life assurance policy
• Enhanced parental leave packages
• Free open access to company organised events
• Free parking onsite
An entrepreneur who is passionate about connecting people with a natural empathy for start-ups and scale-ups. Someone who can position our entrepreneurial programmes as a key driver of economic growth through increased innovation, increased start up activity and more high value companies realising high growth potential.
Relevant international experience in entrepreneurship or innovation
Proven ability to generate new ideas and strategies for programme evolution
Experience of a similar role in technology-based entrepreneurial ecosystems
Proven experience and participation in entrepreneurial ecosystems e.g., volunteering as a mentor or managing programmes and their co-design
Competitive Benefits Package
Private medical insurance for you and your dependents
Generous pension contribution
Generous life assurance policy
Enhanced parental leave packages
Free open access to company organised events
Free parking onsite
Learning and development opportunities
Catalyst is an independent, not for profit organisation. We work for the greater good to build a connected innovation community in an entrepreneurial ecosystem throughout Northern Ireland.
The epicentre of Northern Ireland’s tech sector, we provide everything that innovators and entrepreneurs need to reach higher and succeed faster – a home, business support, connected networks and much more besides.
We invest, pro bono, all surplus profits from our property portfolio into nurturing a community-led innovation ecosystem that supports over 900 start-ups, entrepreneurs, and innovators so they can grow, scale and flourish.
Diversity and inclusion aren’t boxes to tick on a CSR list. At Catalyst, they’re part of our DNA, lived, breathed, seen, and heard across our community, projects, and co-working spaces.
We not only want to foster and empower a culture of innovation, but also an environment where people can be their true, authentic self and thrive, and we’re proud to be recognised by the Diversity Charter for achieving Bronze status, which is the first step as we progress to Gold.
As an equal opportunity employer, we recruit based solely on the individual’s ability to perform the role, and that’s allowed us to create an inclusive workplace which celebrates the diversity of our teams and community.
Catalyst is Northern Ireland’s most exciting employer. With a strong purpose of creating world class innovation communities in Northern Ireland, this is a workplace brimming with ambition to create social, cultural, and economic advantage.
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